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Everett Franklin Bleiler (April 30, 1920 – June 13, 2010) was an American editor, bibliographer, and scholar of science fiction, detective fiction, and fantasy literature. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, he co-edited the first "year's best" series of science fiction anthologies, and his Checklist of Fantastic Literature has been called "the foundation of modern SF bibliography".^[1] Among his other scholarly works are two Hugo Award–nominated volumes concerning early science fiction—Science-Fiction: The Early Years and Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years^[2]—and the massive Guide to Supernatural Fiction.

Bleiler worked at Dover Publications from 1955, becoming executive vice-president of the company from 1967 until he left in 1977; he then worked for Charles Scribner's Sons until 1987.^[1] He edited a number of ghost story collections for Dover, containing what the genre historian Mike Ashley has described as "detailed and exemplary introductions".^[3]

Bleiler received the Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction scholarship in 1984, the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 1988,^[4] the First Fandom Hall of Fame award in 1994, and the International Horror Guild Living Legend award in 2004.^[1]

In the 1970s Bleiler wrote two works of fiction, which were not published until 2006: the fantasy novel Firegang: A Mythic Fantasy, set in the tree of Yggdrasil as well as moving across time and space, and Magistrate Mai and the Invisible Murderer, a detective story set in ancient China, similar to the work of Robert van Gulik.

Bleiler's son, Richard, is also a science fiction historian and assisted his father on several of his works.^[2]

Selected bibliography

As editor

The Best Science Fiction

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  The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949 (with T. E. Dikty)


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  The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1950 (with T. E. Dikty)


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  The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1951 (with T. E. Dikty)


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  The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1952 (with T. E. Dikty)


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  The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1953 (with T. E. Dikty)


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  The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1954 (with T. E. Dikty)


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  Year’s Best Science Fiction Novels: 1952 (with T. E. Dikty)


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  Year’s Best Science Fiction Novels: 1953 (with T. E. Dikty)


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  Year’s Best Science Fiction Novels: 1954 (with T. E. Dikty)

Other anthologies

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  Imagination Unlimited (with T. E. Dikty, 1952)


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  Frontiers in Space (with T. E. Dikty, 1955)


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  Three Gothic Novels (1966)


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  Five Victorian Ghost Novels (1971)


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  Eight Dime Novels (1974)


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  Three Supernatural Novels of the Victorian Period (1975)


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  Three Victorian Detective Novels (1978)


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  A Treasury of Victorian Detective Stories (1979)


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  A Treasury of Victorian Ghost Stories (1981)

Single-author collections

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  Three Prophetic Science Fiction Novels of H. G. Wells (1960)


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  Best Ghost Stories of J. S. Le Fanu (1964)


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  Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce (1964)


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  The Best Tales of Hoffmann, by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1967)


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  The King in Yellow and Other Stories, by Robert W. Chambers (1970)


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  Best Max Carrados Detective Stories, by Ernest Bramah (1972)


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  Gods, Men and Ghosts, by Lord Dunsany (1972)


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  The Best Dr. Thorndyke Detective Stories, by R. Austin Freeman (1973)


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  Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood (1973)


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  Best "Thinking Machine" Detective Stories, by Jacques Futrelle (1973)


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  Ghost Stories and Mysteries, by J. S. Le Fanu (1975)


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  Best Martin Hewitt Detective Stories, by Arthur Morrison (1976)


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  Great Cases of the "Thinking Machine", by Jacques Futrelle (1976)


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  The Collected Ghost Stories of Mrs J. H. Riddell (1977)


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  The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle (1979)


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  The Old Man in the Corner: Twelve Mysteries, by Baroness Orczy (1980)

Nonfiction

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  The Checklist of Fantastic Literature (1948; corrected and revised edition [as The Checklist of Science Fiction and Supernatural Fiction], 1978)


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  The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (1983)


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  Science-Fiction: The Early Years (with Richard Bleiler) (1990)


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  Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years (with Richard Bleiler) (1998)

As editor and contributor

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  Science Fiction Writers (1982)


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  Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror (1985)

Fiction

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  Firegang: A Mythic Fantasy. The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box Press, 2006. .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
  ISBN 1-55246-728-7
  


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  Magistrate Mai and the Invisible Murderer. The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box Press, 2006.
  ISBN 1-55246-727-9
  

References

External links

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  Interview with E. F. Bleiler by Brian J. Showers


• Complete E. F. Bleiler bibliography


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  Everett F. Bleiler at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  


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  Bleiler, Everett F at the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 3rd edition


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  E. F. Bleiler at Library of Congress Authorities, with 33 catalog records